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...President won't budge for now on Iraq. And the Democrats won't be able to summon the 67 votes necessary to pass a timetable for withdrawal. Even the old bull Republicans who have "abandoned" the President aren't prepared to vote with the Democrats just yet. The most interesting vote in the next few weeks will be on a bipartisan amendment, sponsored by Democrat Ken Salazar of Colorado and Republican Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, that would enshrine the findings of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group as national policy. One of those findings calls for the withdrawal...
...subpoena by a Congressional subcommittee, where she had been scheduled to answer questions on the Administration's controversial firings of federal prosecutors. The day before, Miers' attorney announced that she would heed President Bush's claim of executive privilege and not testify. In response, Rep. Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat and chairwoman of a House Judiciary subcommittee, ruled that the President's claims of executive privilege on behalf of Miers were not legally valid, setting into motion a process that could potentially result in charges of contempt being filed against the former aide...
...threat did not deter a bevy of proposals as Democrats and Republicans alike shopped for the magic formula to get them to 60 votes. Senator Ken Salazar, a Colorado Democrat, and a group of five other Democrats and six Republicans introduced an amendment that would put in place the recommendations of the Iraqi Study Group - including direct talks with Syria and Iran and beginning a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops - an idea panned by conservatives as going backward seven months in the face of the new surge strategy...
...Senator Jim Webb, a Virginia Democrat, introduced a measure that would force the armed services to give troops longer intervals at home between redeployments. With the other leaders before the television cameras, Senator John McCain criticized that idea as "encroachment on the constitutional rights of the President of the United States...
...Collins, who had a "vigorous" conversation of her own with Rice Tuesday morning, said she and Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, a Democrat, are working on legislation that would have binding recommendations for phased troop withdrawals. At the same time, she is also considering signing onto a yet-to-be-announced amendment by Republican Senators John Warner of Virginia and Richard Lugar of Indiana...